The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1887-03-19
GRENADA. MISS. SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1887.

| h"V0 oOOn ~ AdI away III Iuo ulbuAhi bUll
tude which the voice of man seldom
breaks; we have seen it everywhere for
twenty miles in every direction. We
have seen it in brown and red hematite,
in kidney form, we have seen it in the
red clay, for the first time exposed to
sight since the fat of Omnipotence spoke
these hills into form and position. Duck
Hill is here on her own indestructible
foundation.
So Duck Hill geolcgically considered,
is the same, and will be until ten or
twenty thousand swarthy sons of toll
are busy with pickax and shovel, furnace
and forge, hammer and tongs, converting
these crude ores into shapes and forms
suitable to the progressive demands Q!
this active age. But Duck Hill has "A
life above the forces of dead matter
She has churches and Sunday Schools,
where christian people assemble at state,
times to offer praise and thanksgiving o
God our universal father. On SUNDAY
asst we heard serman in the Baptist
Church from DR.. j. L. johnson, prolessOr
# English Literature in the Univtrsi
If Mississippi, that would have borne
he closest criticism in the large and
'ultured cities of New York, Boston or
ny other place, known for refnement
nd intelligence. The little church was
rowded with anxious patient listener /.
The reverend gel tleman said that he h; d
rejoiced at Duck Hills iron boom, but
wv he wanted boom in the cause Of
hristian missions, right then and there.
tnd not less than one hundred dollars
would do, which he wished to telegraph
abroad, aud he got it too. That's Ducl
III in her Sunday wrappings, and to'
rsize, her phylactories are broad an
brilliant. But Duck Hill in asocial way s
d worshiper at tine Thespian temple nov
nd then. On last Friday night, the good
p .ople turned out to hear and see he
s gentlemen and three ladies', all to til
m inner born, could stand the glare O.
the footlights, and the stare of an anX-
i,us crowd. When we say that the,
performed their parts in the highest styL
OF the amateur drama, we mean what W
s,y. Where all did so well, it were invid-
l,us to designate, but we may be allowe'
90 say that there was amongst then
rallent which if trained and educated
might reach the proud position q
dramatic stars The piece was "a Social
GLASS;" and some OF the shots were s"
veil directed that they fell with thrilliI g
fleet upon the little audience of a hur-
lred and upward. Duck Hill, in this
connection, can boast of one of the finest
halls in the State, and it is over the store
of that man who does nothing by halves
D, D. Wilkins.
Professor johnson of Oxford has form
ed a partnership with Doc. A. Wilkins
in the cattle business, and with their Jer-
seys, Holstein and fine graded cattle,
Duck Hill will at no distant day, have a
creamery, where rich cheese and giltedge
butter will be made. So Duck Hill
sitting on her iron ribbed hills, with
her churches of earnest intelligent
christians, an unorganized exchange OF
nine solid merchants, three or four saw
and grist mills almost in sight, with
several large and splendid farms all
around, and amateur theatrical corps,
all supplemented by class of ladies
and gentleman, who are the equals OF
any. May we not place coronet Of iron
around the corporation of Duck Hill, as
famous as that which once bound the
temples of Charlemagne.